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'''AOL''' stands for "America OnLine", a leading commercial provider of email accounts and access to the [[internet]]. In the past few years, its business model has increasing shifted to an advertising-supported one, serving ads both on their own sites and to third-party sites via their [http://www.platform-a.com/ Platform-A] distribution system. It merged with [[New York City]] based conglomerate [[Time Warner]] in 2001<ref>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/28/technology/timewarner_aol/</ref>; in 2009 Time Warner bought out [[Google]]|Google's ]] minority stake, and then AOL was [[spin-off|spun off]] into a separate, publicly-traded company, initially owned by Time Warner's shareholders.<ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7696469</ref> In 2011, it acquired<ref>http://corp.aol.com/about-aol/overview</ref> the liberal<ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1192975/The-Huffington-Post</ref> [[Huffington Post]]. In 2015 [[Verizon]] announced that it would acquire AOL for $50 per share, or approximately $4.4 [[billion]].<ref>http://ir.aol.com/mobile.view?c=147895&v=203&d=1&id=2047040</ref>

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